I don’t always use them. But then 3/4 of the year (maybe 4/5) where I live all you need is a sheet or light blanket, our duvet gets very little use.

*Would* repeat it. Implying they don’t, generally, because they probably won’t come across it again. Whether or not you would, I think, is different to whether or not you intentionally seek it out even after seeing it inadvertently once. “I would do that again if I had the opportunity” is not the same as “I think I’ll…

And she can have her opinions (and not realize that she thinks she sounds accepting but actually she’s not) but if she publicizes them, she’s not free from criticism of her words.

Freedom of speech for all!

Oh Christ.

I don’t care about her, and I don’t watch American Idol. But I hear this a lot and I think -

What the fuck is there to “not agree” with? Would you go up to an Asian person and say “I don’t agree with your Asian lifestyle?” Would you go up to a man and say “I don’t agree with your male lifestyle?” “Hey…

A lot of these feel like opinions (what if I think the china from Jingdezhen, China, is superior to that of Limoges?) and some, like “where does most of the coffee come from?” sound very close to questions along the lines of “Are there hats?”

And no way in hell is this a test of intelligence. Not a shred of critical…

I’ve got one.

I live in Taiwan. Republicans have in recent decades been much more strongly pro-Taiwan and in favor of defending Taiwan against a legitimate Chinese threat (and it’s real, we’re not talking phantom WMDs here, they actually do just want to annex Taiwan against the wishes of the Taiwanese people) than…

Also this only works if you are likely to agree with the rest of the platform, which I don’t.

Could women look at fiscal issues besides those posed by having children (because I agree that abortion *is* a fiscal issue)? Sure. But their other fiscal platforms are also terrible, so what does it matter?

Yep. Many women do. I wouldn’t say even nearly a majority, but more than you’d think.

The president-elect of Taiwan (also the first female president of Taiwan and the first female president in Asia who is not the daughter or wife of a former male head of state), Tsai Ying-wen, presented to voters a detailed and coherent set of policies and proposals that she is able to speak about fluently (having been…

Women exist who do not think they are as fully realized as humans as men. They wouldn’t put it that way of course, but they really do put stock in the idea that the men in their lives ‘know best’, that women have a ‘place’. Some probably really are happier in traditional roles where they basically cater to men (of…

Hey man, here in Asia a lot of guys who - to give into the ridiculous number system for a minute - were like a 3 back home get treated like 10s. I mean yeah, yeah, if they *can* then it’s not my business to say they *shouldn’t* and the women who go for them are doing so of their own volition, if it’s consensual and…

And that’s the rub for me. Two cities I’d consider living in if I moved back to the Western hemisphere are New York and Toronto (because my husband has Canadian citizenship and I want to lock that shit down for myself, too). But looking at rents in both cities, well, I can’t afford a car, and I can’t afford to live…

On some level I kinda sorta feel the same way, at least when it comes to entertainment media (though I loathe any form of DRM and will torrent simply to avoid it - if DRM were removed and electronic media I purchased were truly mine with no corporate fingers still stuck in it, I would be more likely to buy it), and I…

At least with “Confucius say”, if you fix the purposely terrible grammar that unfairly mocks the perceived English level of many Asian people, there is an actual and documented history of proverb-like sayings that Confucius actually did say, and in Chinese there is a phrase that translates directly into “Confucius…

I’d say it’s DC, where it’s already begun but hasn’t quite taken over the entire city yet. It is not the same city where I went to college.

Building lots of housing is a pretty obvious solution that most cities lack the political will to execute, because America.

And yes, a lot of it has to do with white people moving back - it would be crazy to deny there’s a racial divide here. But it’s also a socioeconomic divide. I’m white and I can’t afford to live in…

Well, he isn’t bringing home enough money to pay for basic necessities *now*, so if he takes a minimum wage job and gives most of it to his kids, it won’t be all that different for him, will it?

What’s really sad about that is that teaching shouldn’t be a low-paid career.

I totally see your point, though I do think it’s possible these were the only jobs he could get - it’s very hard to get and keep a job with intermittently cut-off cell phone service and no license. In some cities you can get around without driving. In most you need a car or, honestly, you likely just don’t work.

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